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The Christian schism in Jewish history and Jewish memory /

"How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burns, Joshua Ezra (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Jews > Identity.
Christianity.
Interfaith relations.
Judaism.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The parting of the ways in contemporary perspective
  • 2. Jewish identity in classical antiquity: critical issues and approaches to definition
  • 3. Early Christian negotiations with Jewish identity
  • 4. Reading Christianity as a Jewish heresy in early Rabbinic texts
  • 5. Shifting demographics and the making of a schism.